Many people who grew up in the 1990s still have a soft spot for "Mighty Morphin Power Rangers." The superhero show was a pop culture phenomenon, but what not everyone knows is that "Power Rangers" didn't end when the '90s did. In 2009, "Power Rangers RPM" — the seventeenth season of "Power Rangers" — began airing. Like previous seasons, the show was produced in New Zealand, and the cast was largely made up of local actors. Auckland native Rose McIver won the role of Summer Landsdown, who undergoes a makeover of the soul before becoming the Yellow Ranger.
Unlike the amiable Sam, Summer is not easy to like when we first meet her. She's heiress to a fortune and isn't shy about letting people know it. Her attitude is most likely due to her absent parents: The closest thing she has to a parental figure is her butler, Andrews, but she's not very nice to him, either. Andrews puts up with her because he believes there's a good person in there somewhere, and he turns out to be right.
Unfortunately, Andrews doesn't live to see Summer kicking butt as the Yellow Ranger. The loyal butler dies from his wounds after Venjix (voiced by Andrew Laing) attacks Summer's birthday party. Summer vows to make up for his' sacrifice when she's recruited to become a Power Ranger.
With all the superheroics involved, the role was a physical one. "When people shoot these big Marvel movies and things, it's people covered in dots and in green suits or in black suits or whatever," McIver told Collider. "This was literally somebody chucks on giant rubber head and fights in the New Zealand sun and humidity on a beach down the street from where I grew up."
